Poet, critic, and editor Michael McFee was born in Asheville, North Carolina and earned both his BA and MA at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

McFee’s poems, often set in his native North Carolina, are grounded in the particulars of place even as they explore themes of loss, memory, and family life. As Jake Adam York observed in his introduction to McFee’s work in the journal StorySouth, “McFee’s convincing power . . .